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Do Ankhen Barah Haath

Directed by : V. Shantaram

With : V. Shantaram, Sandhya, Ulhas, B. M. Vyas, Baburao Pendharkar
Music : Vasant Desai
Lyrics : Vasant Desai
Genre : Romantic
Year : 1957
Languages : Hindi
Duration :185 minutes
Subtitles : English
Import - All regions

“Do Aankhen Barah Haath" is an inspirational film which endorses prison reform and propounds the philosophy that even the most hardened, seemingly soul dead criminal can be brought in contact with his higher self. Fighting fit at 57, V Shantaram plays an idealistic, humane jailor. His idealism is not just wooly-headedness. Alert enough to grapple with a prisoner wanting to kill him, the jailor is also pointedly compassionate enough to reach for a bell and not a stick as a means to overpower his assailant.
The jailor has a singularly innovative plan. Putting his own property, freedom and career at stake and taking his superior's scoffing in his stride, he takes six criminals out of the jail and reforms them into socially productive human beings. The jailor opts for six hard-bitten burly men serving sentences for ruthless murder. Egging them on with sympathy and with freedom coupled with responsibility, he takes them to an isolated, barren farm, which they try to convert into a lush Eden. But going from 'fiend' to 'refined' is not an easy journey. “Do Aankhen Barah Haath” makes you want to believe in the innate decency of all human beings. And for how many films can one say that? Despite being a message film, it doesn't lapse into dull didacticism but remains cinematically alive throughout.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 04 February, 2010.